Hallo Günther,

On Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 10:35:24 AM UTC-4, Meteo Oberwallis wrote:
>
> Hello Gary.
>
> First of all, thank you for exploring the cvs file. Sounds good that you 
> can import and save them. Now I have to know something else. you talk about 
> adapting the wee_import? How does that work? I also wanted to ask because I 
> didn't quite understand it with rain. Weewx needs the cumulative amount of 
> rain. Wouldn't it be easier if I simply deleted all other rain data from 
> the table? And the last question. You wrote that (--dry-run) can be used to 
> test whether everything is ok. How should I do that? Sorry for the many 
> questions. But is not quite clear ;-)
>

See the instructions at 
http://www.weewx.com/docs/utilities.htm#wee_import_utility for the 
wee_import utility.

>From your WeeWX install location such as /home/weewx, copy the file 
utils/import/csv-example.conf and use as a template to make the changes. 

Hope this helps,
-Bill

>
> Many thanks and best regards
>
> Am Sonntag, 12. April 2020 01:12:08 UTC+2 schrieb gjr80:
>>
>> Hallo Günther,
>>
>> A few observations on your data:
>>
>> 1. The column names can be whatever you want, the only requirements are 
>> they are unique and you can enter them in the [[FieldMap]] 
>> <http://weewx.com/docs/utilities.htm#csv_fieldmap> portion of the import 
>> config file. In theory, your German field names should work but all we need 
>> is some sort of unicode failure somewhere in the processing chain and the 
>> import will fail. If it were me I would remove the units in brackets and 
>> try the import with your fields names via a dry run (using --dry-run). 
>> That will show you if it will fail without affecting your WeeWX data.
>>
>> 2. You will need to remove the 'M' from the Intervall field.
>>
>> 3. WeeWX records rain on a per-interval basis whereas your rain data is 
>> cumulative. That is fine, wee_import can do the calculations but you 
>> need to tell wee_import your rain data is cumulative and you need to 
>> select one of the rain fields to use (you have five). I would use the 
>> longest period rain field, in your case Gesamter Niederschlag. So in your 
>> import config file you will need (untested):
>>
>> rain = cumulative
>>
>> and in your field map:
>>
>> rain = 'Gesamter Niederschlag', mm
>>
>> 4. Your Zeit (date-time) field format is fine, no need for a unix epoch 
>> timestamp, wee_import will do that provided you come up with a suitable 
>> date-time format string that wee_import can use to recognise the 
>> different portions of the date-time. This is covered by the 
>> raw_datetime_format setting in the import config file, the wee_import 
>> section <http://weewx.com/docs/utilities.htm#csv_raw_datetime_format> of 
>> the Utilities Guide explains it's use. in your case I suspect that 
>> '%d.%m.%Y  %H:%M:%S' will do the job (untested). Again the dry run should 
>> be used to check.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On Saturday, 11 April 2020 16:57:00 UTC+10, Günther Wrana wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would have my .csv file here that I would like to import. How should 
>>> it look like? Do I have to insert the column names listed in the 
>>> documentation in the header?
>>>
>>>
>>> Time,Temp,Dewpoint,Press,WindDir,WindSpeed,WindGust,Hum,dailyrain,SolarRad
>>>
>>> Date and time are in one column, do they also have to have this UNIX 
>>> date format?
>>>
>>> Thank you Günther
>>>
>>

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